How competitiveness can improve your healthscore

Improve your HealthScore

Many of us like to win. It’s a common trait for people all around the world. However, it seems to be especially abundant in people who enjoy exercise and working out. This can sometimes be a negative attribute and can cause tension between friendship groups, especially if you all share the same competitive tendencies.

However, it doesn’t have to be a disadvantage as if you are using a health platform, such as dacadoo, you can use this competitive edge to your advantage and make it a positive quality that helps you further your health and fitness and reach your goals.

But how can competitiveness help improve your dacadoo healthscore?

Reduce your stress

The nature of the dacadoo health platform means that doing fitness classes and stuff with your friends is very much encouraged and rewarded within the system, which improves your healthscore. People who are of a competitive nature are more likely to work out with their friends (in order to beat them) and this can not only boost your healthscore in terms of your fitness levels, but also reduces your stress levels.

Various research has shown that doing regular exercise can help reduce your stress levels, and generally help you lead a healthier lifestyle, which improves your healthscore on all counts! By being competitive with your classes, gym sessions or runs, you are also more likely to have fun while you are doing it. Socialising with your friends while exercising means your stress levels will be even lower than working out on your own, which can be lonely and not as motivating.

Encourage your exercise

In the same vein, being competitive encourages you to get off your sofa and run more, even if it is just to beat your friend’s healthscore this week or the distance they have run. The dacadoo platform allows you to make the most of your competitiveness by enabling you to see exactly what your friends have been doing. This will encourage you to go out and run a little bit further or work a little bit harder in the gym, which will show in your dacadoo healthscore.

If you and your friends are all using the dacadoo health platform you can use each other’s competitiveness to achieve your fitness goals and reach your targets. Working out together is a lot more fun than exercising alone and will spur you on to run a little bit harder or faster so that you beat your friend’s healthscore.

Make better nutrition choices

Truly competitive people are competitive in all areas of their life, from everything like board games at Christmas to what they eat, and it is the latter that will help improve your dacadoo healthscore. If you see that your friend has lost more weight than you this week, although you’ll be pleased for them, inside you’ll be wanting to beat them when you next step on the scales. This will mean that you are more likely to pick the salad over the hot dog when you next go out for something to eat. This will improve your dacadoo healthscore when you are filling in the nutrition questions with your coach, as well as helping you improve you health and hit your weightloss and fitness goals.

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